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Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron

1799 - 1864

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Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron (French: [klapɛʁɔ̃]; 26 January 1799 – 28 January 1864) was a French engineer and physicist, one of the founders of thermodynamics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron is the 142nd most popular physicist (up from 161st in 2019), the 476th most popular biography from France (up from 672nd in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Physicist.

Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron was a French engineer and physicist who is most famous for his work on the thermodynamic properties of gases.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 142 out of 851. Before him are Emilio Segrè, Emil Lenz, George Gamow, C. V. Raman, Arno Allan Penzias, and Pavel Cherenkov. After him are Roger Penrose, Louis Néel, Rudolf Mössbauer, Kai Siegbahn, Clifford Shull, and John Bardeen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 4. Before him are Honoré de Balzac, Alexander Pushkin, and Oscar I of Sweden. After him are William Lassell, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Mary Anning, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Fromental Halévy, Charles II, Duke of Parma, Princess Maria Anna of Saxony, and Karl Bryullov. Among people deceased in 1864, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 5. Before him are George Boole, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Ferdinand Lassalle, and Giacomo Meyerbeer. After him are Vuk Karadžić, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cheoljong of Joseon, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Princess Charlotte of Denmark, Hong Xiuquan, and J. E. B. Stuart.

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In France

Among people born in France, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 476 out of 6,770. Before him are Louis-Nicolas Davout (1770), François-Noël Babeuf (1760), Lazare Carnot (1753), Jean-de-Dieu Soult (1769), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), and Albert Lebrun (1871). After him are Pytheas (-380), Louis Néel (1904), Paul Henri Balluet d'Estournelles de Constant (1852), Siméon Denis Poisson (1781), Roger Vadim (1928), and Fernand Léger (1881).

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Among PHYSICISTS In France

Among physicists born in France, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron ranks 15. Before him are Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900), Jean Baptiste Perrin (1870), François Arago (1786), Albert Fert (1938), Alfred Kastler (1902), and Hans Bethe (1906). After him are Louis Néel (1904), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Hippolyte Fizeau (1819), Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788), Paul Langevin (1872), and Edmond Becquerel (1820).

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